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Uneven Urban and Regional Growth: Global Urbanization, Regional Economies and Local Dynamics examines the links between economic growth, metropolitan development, and environmental sustainability in advanced economies. Focusing on urban areas as hubs of innovation and social change, the book explores how social and environmental factors intersect with economic processes. It advocates for new governance strategies that promote sustainable growth through inclusive policies and integrated urban tools. Drawing on regional economics, it offers a comparative analysis of settlement patterns and spatial planning, emphasizing multilevel governance to address social inequalities and contemporary urban challenges effectively.
Structured in three sections, the book begins with a global-to-regional perspective on urbanization and economic dynamics, featuring analyses of uneven economic growth, urban-rural dynamics, and urbanization trends supported by global statistics and case studies from the United States, Iran, and Italy. The second section delves into socio-demographic drivers of urbanization at the regional and district levels, including population dynamics, family patterns, migration, and environmental health indicators in Mediterranean contexts. The final section focuses on local planning and territorial factors influencing urbanization, addressing topics such as landscape quality, labor markets, sustainable regional development, port infrastructure economics, and gendered urban spaces. Richly illustrated with photographs, graphs, maps, and case studies, the book integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from applied economics, geography, sociology, demography, planning, and socio-environmental sciences.
This volume is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in academia seeking an interdisciplinary understanding of urban complexity. It also serves practitioners and stakeholders including planners, architects, urban policymakers, environmental scientists, agronomists, ecologists, and local development experts. By combining academic rigor with practical insights, the book equips its audience with innovative frameworks and comparative analyses to address the multifaceted challenges of sustainable urban and regional growth in today's dynamic world.
Contents
1. The uneven economic growth in the anthropocene
2. Urban-rural dynamics and long-term economic development: a global analysis of world regions
Section 1. From global to regional: urbanization and economic dynamics
3. Urbanization in progress: a complete and comparative overview with global statistics
4. The use of elementary indicators and composite indexes when monitoring urbanization all over the world
5. Estimating urbanization and production functions in the United States
6. The challenge of housing prices as an engine of early urbanization in Iran
7. Tourism as an engine of growth in Italy
Section 2. From regional to district: socio-demographic aspects as urbanization drivers
8. Exploring urban-rural population dynamics in Mediterranean countries
9. A comparative analysis of family patterns in Greece and other Southern European countries
10. The inherent shift from monocentric to polycentric settlements in northern Italy
11. Migration patterns and the contribution to Mediterranean urbanization
12. Relating mortality records to the Discomfort Index (DI) and Air Quality Stress Index (AQSI) in an industrial city of Greece
Section 3. From district to local: planning and territorial aspects as urbanization drivers
13. Pedestrians' perception of landscape quality and urban livability: a field survey in Iran
14. Regional labor markets and jobs creation: Geographical and socio-economic characteristics and the role of local and regional authorities
15. Material topics, regional development and distributed value in the sustainable reports: the case of the paper industry
16. The local economics of port infrastructures
17. Gendered urban spaces and (dis)satisfaction with ladies-only parks in Iran
